{"id":670379,"date":"2026-10-31T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:44:08","slug":"the-traitors-new-blood-episode-8-plus-news-notes-the-tv-obsessive-podcast-episode-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670379\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors: New Blood Episode 8 Plus News &#038; Notes (The TV Obsessive Podcast Episode 180)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, on The TV Obsessive Podcast Episode 180, Caemeron and Ryan discuss The Traitors: New Blood Episode 8, \u201cA Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch.\u201d But first, in the news:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-large wp-image-303632\" viewbox=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/traitors-8-victor-700x376.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Victor with a hand to his chin.\" width=\"662\" height=\"356\" data-smush-webp-fallback=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tvobsessive.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/traitors-8-victor-700x376.jpg&quot;}\"\/>Screenshot\/NBC<br \/>\nOn The Traitors: New Blood Episode 8, \u201cA Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After last week\u2019s cliffhanger, we learn that Shane earned the pardon power from the previous challenge. Even though he voted for Victor to be banished, Shane changes his mind and pardons Victor, meaning no one leaves the castle.<\/p>\n<p>That night, the Traitors decide between Victor and Abby L for murder. They select Abby L, hoping to throw some heat at Wyatt for the murder. The next morning at breakfast, everyone learns that Abby has been murdered and that there will also be no challenge that day \u2013 it\u2019s straight to the next Roundtable.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Tomica is not able to build a good enough defense, and she is voted out, including votes from Joe and Katie. After the Roundtable, Victor is elated and believes he can pick off all the traitors now. Ahead of a feast to celebrate their victory and $15,000 in the prize pot, Joe wonders how hard Victor will come after him next.<\/p>\n<p>Reflections on strategy (or the lack thereof)<br \/>\nThoughts about the show structure (no challenge this week, etc.)<br \/>\nOn Shane and the power of the pardon<\/p>\n<p>Next Time on The TV Obsessive Podcast\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We continue to discuss The Traitors: New Blood with a look at Episode 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, on The TV Obsessive Podcast Episode 180, Caemeron and Ryan discuss The Traitors: New Blood Episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,10796,282],"class_list":["post-670379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}